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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[–] Yewb@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (17 children)

The birth of the internet, it was not easy getting on the internet back in the day.

There was a very high technical bar to get everything working, everyone was actually really cool, supportive, and generally nice.

[–] Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pull up a chair son, I'll tell you a tale of Trumpet Winsock.

[–] necromancyr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh fuck. Totally forgot about that! Think I blocked out how bad it was to connect in Win3.1...but those sweet mIRC windows were worth it.

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